Not able to connect load balancer docker app

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I have pulled and run the public docker image of the app and its running fine now :

21ce5a75f0dd andredewes/aoai-smart-loadbalancing:v1 "dotnet openai-loadb…" 2 days ago Up 2 days 8080-8081/tcp interesting_matsumoto

In the container logs also I can see this has started listening on 8080:

$ docker logs -f 21ce5a75f0dd
warn: Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.Repositories.FileSystemXmlRepository[60]
      Storing keys in a directory '/home/app/.aspnet/DataProtection-Keys' that may not be persisted outside of the container. Protected data will be unavailable when container is destroyed. For more information go to https://aka.ms/aspnet/dataprotectionwarning
warn: Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.KeyManagement.XmlKeyManager[35]
      No XML encryptor configured. Key {983733f9-e824-4422-9da6-585701e16af0} may be persisted to storage in unencrypted form.
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[14]
      Now listening on: http://[::]:8080
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
      Application started. Press Ctrl+C to shut down.
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
      Hosting environment: Production
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
      Content root path: /app

However I am not able to connect to this LB container from my app and getting :

httpx.ConnectError: [Errno 61] Connection refused

My code looks like this :

    client = AzureOpenAI(
        # https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference#rest-api-versioning
        api_version="2023-12-01-preview",
        # https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/openai/how-to/create-resource?pivots=web-portal#create-a-resource
        azure_endpoint="https://myhostname.XYZ.com:8080",
    )

I can't connect to the app's server using curl also :

curl https://myhostname.XYZ.cloudera.com:8080                                                              
curl: (7) Failed to connect to myhostname.XYZ.com port 8080 after 360 ms: Couldn't connect to server

Any suggestions what might I be missing here?

Thanks!